A series of federal investments, collectively referred to as the New Deal, were implemented in parks across the nation to aid in the recovery from the Great Depression. In addition to state and federal parks, local parks also gleaned benefits from these programs. Allegheny Count…
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The dissertation renders a comprehensive account of the economic, social, and political implications of the Great Depression of the 1930s for colonial Northern Nigeria, focusing particularly on how various groups of Northern Nigerians—farmers, workers, traders, chiefs, and the e…
This study examines African American anti-colonial rhetoric during the Great Depression in order better to understand international dimensions of domestic political expression and the complexity of U.S. black American rhetorical culture. I argue that colonial interpretations of …
When Congress passed the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, it brought a dramatic halt to the era of mass migration that had begun over forty years before. For the American-born children of Jewish immigrants who came of age in the turbulent decades that followed, this shift in policy hasten…
Indebted to Growth explores how local public finance decisions made between the Gilded Age and the Great Depression laid the foundation for white suburbanization, spatial inequality, and urban fiscal strains in the postwar era and beyond. It makes this case by investigating conf…
The Great Depression of the 1930s created some of the most difficult economic times in the history of the United States, with the agricultural sector of the economy taking an especially severe hit. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed to help the rural poor,…
The Great Depression and New Deal had a profound impact on the United States. It led to the need for fundamental changes in the nation, especially regarding the federal government’s role and size. The beginning of the Great Depression marked the end of the “New Era” that the Uni…
While U.S modernist studies has attended well to the radical literary movements of the1920s and 1930s, it often limits its focus to representations of working-class life. Expanding thisscholarship’s historical purview, this project unearths a modernist archive that attests to an…
The focus of this study was to examine differences in the use of presidential Leadership language used by both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Barack H. Obama and setting of their speeches during economic crisis within the first year in office. Franklin D. Roosevel…
Migration is a basic adaptation method to inhospitable environments and has large economic consequences for the migrants themselves and for the economy as a whole. I create new datasets using individual-level census data and county-level drought conditions to study how the worst…
This dissertation consists of three essays on historical and contemporary topics in health and human capital development.